Best Way to Improve FPS

[Halororor]

While I'm on this almost related thread, is there a way to boost your graphics without upgrading and not lowering the graphic settings.

[hybridfan]

isn't it possible to force oblivion to use 2 cores?

 

If you have two cores it will adapt for them, but you can't force it because what if you only have 1 core.

[Zanatoz]

The ini tweaks,like the multi threading,ram usage...pre cell loading, do make a difference...noticed a real change when i enabled the more threads.

 

Even so i can't get this damn game to run a good frame rate,I'm running bloom with no aa my sliders are almost all the way down except for grass which i left high because constant popup of grass as you ride your horse is damn distracting,the only other thing high is water which i have left like that for natural environments.

 

Ok i want to to know how much fps should i be getting with a 4800 amd dualcore,x1650 pro 500 ddr and 2gb of ram, I mean i'm getting like 40 fps when looking at nothing like a wall then i turn around to look at one char and i lose like 7-9 fps....add one more char and i've lost like 20 fps

 

wtf?,this freakin blows,i've tried tweaks newest drivers,directX,dualcore optimizer....just ffn tired of trying to be able to go for a little romp on horseback without there being horrid stuttering and enjoy the view...but that has just not happened...how can it when one little char drops my frames like by like 8...what the hell are they doing that drops them so much?....nothin just standing.

 

That's the problem with todays games guys, no one optimizes anything anymore...or bug tests

[Jesse_Dylan]

Hey, I want in on this conversation too! I'm with the original poster. And the poster right above me. I'm actually considering upgrading. JUST to play silly Oblivion, which runs okay already, and which I've played to death already on Xbox 360... Sanity? Out the window.

 

So, these are my specs.

 

AMD X2 (or 2X or whatever, ya know, dual-core) 2.51 Ghz CPU

ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb

4gb ram

Vista schmista

 

What kind of performance should I bet getting out of Oblivion? I have installed all the optimization mods and what not, and it's still not great. I mean, like the poster above me, I have to turn detail down, and my frame rate is not... ya know... beautiful or anything. I have bigger texture packs installed, but still, look at all my dang system memory. And 512gb vram is nothing to shoo at either.

 

And if I were to upgrade, would I want to upgrade my CPU or my GPU? At first I thought GPU. But honestly... to what? I mean... a $300 nVidia something or other? It would be cheaper to buy a faster version of my CPU. I could get a 3.5Ghz version for $150 or so. Probably wouldn't have to do anything but take out the old one, pop the new one in (but I'd want to make sure I didn't need a new mommy board first).

 

I don't want Streamline to have to turn my details down so far. :( I want it to be pretty. And heck, I can always play Fallout 3 (aka The Elder Scrolls V: Fallout), so it's not JUST for Oblivion.

 

Oh who am I kidding.

 

Yeah, I want advice, though. Advise me, will ya?

[Thor.]

If you really want to get frames i suggest you get yourself a quad core sli machine, meaning to video cards at once, thats the best way to go. I dont have a quad though but my duel core will do, my board doesn't support quad.

 

specs

 

amd x2 2.8ghz overclocked

motherboard sli msi k9m4 pci 2.0

windows xp 64bit pro

4gb ram 800mhz make msi sli

upgraded to 2 XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 Video Cards 1GB DDR3 core 723mhz mem clock 2500mhz bus 256bit.

power supply sli compliant 1200 watts.

 

off topic

 

Soon there will be a tigerdirect store in my neighbourhood, its going to be in walking distance to, man thats going be cool, no shipping fees.